Perhaps Simon Dladla realised after getting knocked out in the first round by Roarke Knapp that he was not invincible.
Dladla’s unpleasant personality has now changed for the better, according to soft-spoken trainer Xolani Moyo who Dladla dumped, along with George Khosi, after winning the SA junior-middleweight boxing belt on December 16 2019.
He became swollen-headed and probably felt he had outgrown their makeshift Hillbrow Boxing Club where he learnt about boxing from the amateur ranks before the duo knocked his raw fighting knacks into shape to be able to graduate to the professional ranks. Dladla, from the Free State, joined the flashy HotBox Gym of Colin Nathan but was trained there by Nathan’s assistant Vusi Mtolo, who had his own boxers that trained at the gym. Two of them are Knapp and Shervontaigh Koopman. Dladla got involved in sparring sessions there and little did he know that he would oppose Knapp for the vacant IBO Youth title.
“Like I said, there is a lot of change in personality. I sat him down and we spoke. In making sure that he did not have lots of time doing nothing, I got him a job as a personal trainer at Fight Club in Sandton.” Regarding the conduct inside the ring where Dladla has always bullied opponents in the pursuit of an early night, Moyo said: “We’ve done adjustments and introduced new things and you will see a completely different Dladla on September 25. I promise you one thing – war – and the title is going nowhere.”
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